32 TOWARDS DISCIPLESHIP

along and tries to discourage you as to the charm and
beauty of it, you would send him off quickly; and simi-
larly, you would not care a rap if anyone tried to
discourage you, if your eyes were once opened to that
wonderful something of which I speak.

There is something in each one of us, something
tremendously great; otherwise we should not be here.
But you need to see something which is more wonder-
ful still, if you want to get on. It is very difficult
to describe it. Personally, I can only say that I feel
that I am going to get there. It is not because I have
seen, or anything of the kind, but subconsciously or
consciously, I feel that it is the only thing worth
doing, and I am going to get there, in spite of every-
thing, or rather with the help of everything. It is
like going to that mountain top. You know you have
got to get there, although it may rain or get foggy
or anything else may happen. I do not want to take
a superior attitude, but I do not see the point of
describing the same thing over and over again. It
gets so banale. Take the portrait of Lord Buddha,
the large one. When I see it, I say to myself: it! am
going to be like that." It is no good describing what
it is, for you see it as much as I do.

The thing that really matters is that you should
reach the goal, get to the mountain top. It does not
matter who gives you the inspiration, or what it is
that urges you on, so long as you do get there. That